A teenager arrested last week for her alleged role in her 8-year-old brother’s death is speaking out, insisting she had nothing to do with the tragedy and that she has been “falsely” accused.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office announced last week that Kara Walker, 17, had been arrested along with her boyfriend, Noah Stallings, for allegedly torturing her 8-year-old brother, Charles Walker, to death in February.
In a new interview with KPRC 2 News in Houston, Kara blamed her boyfriend and said her family supports her alibi.
“I’m being falsely charged. I wouldn’t do anything to harm my brother,” Kara said in the interview from the Harris County Jail, where she has been held since her Aug. 27 arrest.
KPRC 2 News reported that Kara appeared “emotional” during the interview and was shocked when police told her she was under arrest.
“They found a note in my phone that I didn’t write and because it was in my phone they’re saying that I wrote it,” she explained. “They found text messages saying I made my brother stand in the corner, even though I didn’t.”
Harris County Jail records reviewed by PEOPLE show Kara remains in custody on a $100,000 bond as of Wednesday. She has not been charged with homicide but with injury to a child, PEOPLE reported.
Stallings, her boyfriend, was charged with the same crime five months earlier. County jail records show he has since been released on a $1 million bond.
Charles Walker died on Feb. 15, five days after Kara and Stallings took him to Baytown Methodist Hospital when he was unresponsive.
According to FOX 26, Stallings told police the boy’s injuries were caused by a fall. But hospital staff told investigators the injuries were consistent with abuse, and an autopsy later confirmed the boy died from blunt force trauma.
“They just compared it to a car accident. 70 to 80 mile an hour car crash with an unrestrained victim,” the boy’s mother, Cecil Walker, told KPRC 2 News this week.
The boy’s father, Christian West, said his son’s death and the charges against Kara have been “a nightmare that we can’t wake up from.”
West added he does not believe Kara, who is 5-foot-2 and around 100 pounds, could have caused the injuries to her brother.
Court documents reviewed by KPRC 2 News, ABC 13, and KHOU 11 reportedly state that the boy was “abused and tortured over several days,” sustaining injuries, including blunt force trauma to the head, that led to his death.
